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FCM unmount list

If customer input on infile the filesystems, FCM can mount thesefilesystems but during unmount, FCM unmount all filesystems instead justthe filesystems informed on infile.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Product functionality 0 Not under consideration

PGAR0911-1435 Logical volume definitions cannot be deleted in DR VTS

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Adnan.CanSubmitters Company: Garanti Teknoloji PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PGAR0911-1435 Logical volume definitions cannot be deleted in DR VTSHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent...
about 9 years ago in Tape - High End Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Tivoli FlashCopy Manager should support db2 backup of SMS tablespace

I have an AVP custome who wish to use Tivoli FlashCopy Manager with their db2 database to improve database backup / restore performance. Most data in the database are in SMS tablespace. Tivoli FlashCopy Manager doesn't support SMS tablespace as do...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 1 Not under consideration

TSM backup wildcard * on DOMAIN statement like DOMAIN /dir*

To be consistent with wildcard usage of "*" in TSM backup exclude/include syntax, this request is for the '*' to be provided as a wildcard for use in the DOMAIN statement, eg DOMAIN all-local -/dir/subdir*.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

Storage size does not consider full values

The storage used is very misleading. For example if the remote storage is 7.62 GB, it shows as &GB. We need accurate numbers for checking the usage.
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM FastBack for Workstations 1 Not under consideration

TSM for Linux on zSystems non linux formatted (image/Volumes) raw dump & restore

The customer DRV (German Retirement Funds) is in the process in deploying TSM on Linux on zSystems globally to replace competition and also as a replacement for some z/OS functions. For this purpose DRV need raw access for dump / restore for non L...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / TSM for System Back-up and Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Backup algorithm needs to be changed to work OK for a chrooted environment

Customer expect that all files will to be backed up. This works under RHEL 6 buts makes trouble in a chrooted environment under RHEL 7. It seems that RedHat in RHEL 7 has changed the way they deal with a directory that is on one side part of the “...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 0 Not under consideration

FCM and Global Mirror with Chage Volumes

I would like to have an integration between the FlashCopy Manager and Remote Mirroring (Global Mirror with Change Volumes).
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Protect Snapshot / Flashcopy Manager 0 Not under consideration

TSM for Space Management - dsmmigundelete

The User's guide for current release of TSM for Space Management (Unix) states: "You cannot use the dsmmigundelete command to re-create stub files for individual files or specific groups of files." In practice it is often necessary to restore indi...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 0 Not under consideration

read-only LUNs for Storwize/SVC

We use VEEAM software to backup our VMware environment. VEEAM has the functionality to backup the VMs through SAN instead of network backup. But therefore the physical VEEAM backup server (Windows server) must be able to see the LUNs which are map...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

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